All Star - Shabbos Melodies 2014 FREE

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Ok, so it's 2015.  Does Shabbos really change? 

Shabbos Melodies is a FREE album that was compiled in honor of The Shabbos Project to inspire the many thousands of people all over the world who will participate in this historic Shabbos, Oct. 24th and 25th Parshas Noach 2014. We’re keeping it together!

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Unknown Musicians of a Wandering Race

A remarkable concert reintroduces three Jewish composers who fled fascist Europe to America, where two of them pioneered a new art form—the symphonic film score.

Edward Rothstein for Mosaic

In his program notes to the Pro Musica Hebraica concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington earlier this month, the historian James Loeffler points out that in 1927—just before the period in which the music on the program was written—a Russian-born musician by the name of Gdal Saleski published a “classic, biographical lexicon” under the title Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race.

At the time, this well-worn description of the Jews as a “wandering race” could still be invoked with pride, or innocence. Not for long, however. Loeffler observes that the post-Holocaust edition of the book would refer instead to composers of “Jewish origin,” and by then the book was more of a memorial volume. Still, that earlier phrase remains strangely resonant, evoking bards doomed to migratory journeys, singing of epic pasts, embodying the age-old fate of the disenfranchised Wandering Jew of Western mythology. And there was a certain element of truth in all of that—as the evening’s program bore out.

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Pop Sensation Lorde, Now in Yiddish

By Daniel Estrin for Jewniverse

Do you wish pop star Lorde would lay down a track in Yiddish already? Well, the next best thing just happened.

The Technicalities, an Israeli husband-and-wife Yiddish music duo in their early 30s, recently recorded this cover of Lorde’s hit song “Team.” Shira Z. Carmel — who also sings in the popular Israeli doo-wop band The Hazelnuts — croons in the mamaloshen with her husband Alon Diament on accordion.

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Why the '60s Were the Most Interesting Decade After All

Philip Eil for The Jewish Daily Forward

Richard Goldstein has written a book that refutes the old saying, “If you remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there.”

Goldstein, the former Village Voice executive editor who helped invent rock criticism with his omnivorous “Pop Eye” column, seems to have been more “there” during the decade than almost anyone else. The self-described “Zelig of the counterculture” attended the March on Washington, befriended Janis Joplin, roamed San Francisco during the “Summer of Love,” received a subpoena to testify in the trial of the Chicago Seven, and had the Velvet Underground play at his wedding. And not only does Goldstein apparently remember everything, but as readers of his new memoir, “Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the ’60s,” will attest, he’s got the literary chops to describe it in incisive, lyrical detail.

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USY’s Jewish Recordings Collection

Whether you’re interested in leading a service at your next convention or need a refresher on your favourite ruach song, iDaven is here to help. USY’s Religion/Education newest project, the iDaven project features an extensive collection of Jewish recordings, including tefillot (prayers) and z’mirot (songs), put together exclusively by USYers. Each recording teaches the Hebrew words at a slow, easy-to-follow pace, making you an expert once you’re done. The database is updated regularly with new additions, so be sure to check back often. If you’re interested in contributing to iDaven, e-mail reled@usy.org.

If you are using iDaven to learn how to lead different Tefillot, use this service outline (Matbe’ah Tefillah) as a guide.

Want to check out a creative way to review/teach RUACH?? Click here for Camp XL 2011 (CHUSY, CRUSY, SWUSY and EMTZA) “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” Program!

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